About Amy White

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Amy White is a former senior editor at Super Lawyers having been with the magazine for 17 years. Prior to that, she was a sports columnist and feature writer for a daily newspaper in Pennsylvania. Her freelance work can be found in Delaware Today Magazine, Mainline Today, Brandywine Hunt, Philadelphia Style and Delaware Beach Life. She is an adjunct professor of writing at the University of Delaware, where she graduated with a journalism degree. She also holds an MFA in publishing and creative writing from Rosemont College and has served as line editor on poetry anthologies and works of contemporary fiction. She loves baseball, bikes, books and coffee.

Articles written by Amy White

Real-Life Gladiator

How Cornelia Brandfield-Harvey became a champion for survivors

The sisters of the Brandfield-Harvey family might have appeared as a 10-legged blonde blur if they crossed your path between the late ’90s and the early 2010s in the Houston suburbs where they lived and played, or on campus at the Awty International School, where each sister attended. All wild hair, laughter and adventure—and with more than a few elbows to the ribs—the members of the Fab Five, as they called themselves, are: Cornelia, Camilla, Agatha, and twins Winifred and Beatrix. …

Tunnel Vision

How cannabis lawyer Paul Josephson scored a front-row seat to a $13B piece of infrastructure

If you’re looking for Paul Josephson, check the least likely place for legal precedent—like the ever-evolving world of cannabis law. “In that space, every legal principle needs to be reexamined, thanks to the federal illegality,” Josephson says. “Take bankruptcy. Because of the illegality, cannabis companies can’t go into bankruptcy court. When you’re striking deals, you’ve got to reconsider, from every angle, how you structure it when those courtroom doors are not even open to …

'Attorney, Artist, Activist'

Preetha Suresh Rini lives her Twitter bio out loud

If you were to ask Preetha Suresh Rini’s mother, she’d tell you her daughter ought to be sending her artwork to Michelle Obama. “She really wants me to do that,” says Rini, laughing. “But I have never sent my work to anyone who inspired it.”  The Robinson Bradshaw business litigator-slash-artist has cultivated quite the mailing list over the years, selling prints of iconic figures like Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. “The RBG I made after …

The Secondary Storyline

As a journalist, Chelsea Crawford saw the story no one else did

Chelsea Crawford had just landed her dream job as a weekend editor for Philadelphia CBS affiliate network KYW-TV when the city was gripped by the 2007 murder of police officer Charles Cassidy. “It was really a crazy, heartbreaking story,” says Crawford, now with Baltimore’s Brown Goldstein & Levy. “Officer Cassidy unknowingly walked into an armed robbery at a Dunkin Donuts, was shot in the head and later died. Part of the shooting was caught on the store’s video camera, which …

The Alliance

Ashley Ward says it’s her turn to pull up the next gen of Black women lawyers

When Maryland Circuit Court Judge Angela Eaves told her clerk Ashley Ward about a networking group she should join, Ward was wary. “Let’s just say I’d done the networking thing before,” she says. Ward had recently arrived back in Maryland after attending law school out of state and was feeling “out of sorts” on how to connect with other young lawyers after her clerkship. “Judge Eaves said, ‘Oh, they will just envelop you in this supportive cocoon,’ and I was just like, …

Second-Parent Adoption in My State

As a couple having reproductive challenges, you choose to use assisted reproduction, such as an egg or sperm donor. The baby that's eventually born to you and your partner is, without question, your baby. Unfortunately, in the eyes of some states, it's not so clear when a non-biological partner is involved. Second-parent adoption is the legal adoption process to allow a non-biological parent to adopt their partner's biological child. Married couples of any sex can adopt a child in all …

Setting the Tone

Andre' B. Caldwell has a propensity to say ‘yes’

In 1995, when he was in middle school in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Andre' B. Caldwell was a member of the mayor’s team volunteers program, in which students were paired with various professionals to explore jobs over the summer. He rolled with the city’s water and electrical meter reading crew. “I got to go out in the vans with the workers and learn how to read the water and electrical meters,” he says.  “And the best part: I carried a walkie-talkie. All summer. … I was so cool …

Creating an Inclusive Workplace for Transgender Employees

While the Human Rights Campaign's 2023-2024 Corporate Equality Index report found that 72 percent of Fortune 500 companies offer transgender-inclusive healthcare — up from zero percent in 2002 — there is still work to be done when it comes to transgender employees and the workplace. As of March 2025, over half of all states have enacted laws banning or restricting gender-affirming care. For legal advice on creating inclusive work environments and employment policies, talk to an …

Transgender Student Rights in Illinois

Transgender student rights in Illinois include Title IX equal access, anti-bullying policies under Illinois law, and school harassment protections under the Illinois Human Rights Act. Students' discrimination protections apply to gender identity and gender expression, including bathroom access, locker room access, and use of their preferred pronouns on their official records. Students also have equal protection for sports participation, school dress codes, and student privacy. Your legal …

What Are the Cybersecurity Risks of Remote Work?

Cybersecurity risks of remote work include unsecured wifi, personal devices without multifactor authentication, and a lack of clear security policies. Remote workers are at risk of phishing attacks and credential theft when using personal laptops on an unsecured home network without VPN access. Other common cybersecurity risks include physical security, cloud misconfiguration, data exfiltration, use of shadow IT, lost devices, and unauthorized vendor access. Endpoint protection, patch …

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